Notes On Schematic Capture
There once was a time when it was common for the PCB Designer to also capture the schematics. I’m not trying to say that the EE’s came along and broke everything.
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Early Stage Design Considerations of Starting a PCB Project from Scratch
There’s nothing quite like the smell of hot solder on a Sunday afternoon, tinkering in your basement as you bring a new electronic concept to life. PCBs are the foundation of modern electronics.
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Notes From the Board Room - On Dimensions
The easiest method is called datum dimensioning where all you do is establish the center of the universe at some point and call it zero-zero. Extension lines...
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Multi-Board Electrical and Thermal Co-simulation using Sigrity PowerDC
Cadence Sigrity PowerDC allows the users to predict the correct DC voltage drop based on the operating temperature of that region of the electronic product's printed circuit board. This demo will...
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Co-Simulate Mechanical and Electrical Systems
The seamless bi-directional integration between MathWorks MATLAB Simulink and PSpice lets you easily simulate electrical circuits and mechanical, hydraulic, thermal blocks in one unified environment.
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Validate Your Circuit Automatically Without Manually Plotting Graphs
Virtually create and test designs before developing hardware, saving you time, money and materials.
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Improve Circuit Performance and Reliability, and Optimize Cost
OrCAD PSpice finds real, commercially available parts for your component variables and analyzes your entire circuit to model expected current, voltage, power and temperature condition for every...
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Identify Critical Components and Improve Circuit Performance
OrCAD PSpice Smoke Analysis looks at your entire circuit and models expected current, voltage, power and temperature conditions for every component in your circuit and compares...
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Find Stressed Components and Improve Circuit Reliability
The sensitivity analysis in OrCAD PSpice simulates circuit performance as components parametric values change giving you an ordered list of critical components in your design, so you know which...
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Notes from the Board Room - On Concurrent PCB Design
You can't finish the board before the schematic, but you want it done pretty much right away, before marketing changes their minds again!
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Developing Your PCB Design Ideas - in the Cloud
Capture your idea instantly and get started on making your dream a reality wherever and whenever inspiration strikes with OrCAD Capture Cloud.
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Make Reliable Designs That Won’t Fail In The Real World!- Use Smoke Analysis In PSpice (Part 3 of 4)
Heard about the ongoing recalls in the Automotive and Cellphone industry? Let's address the important issue of Circuit Reliability!
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Grab A Coffee And Let Optimizer In PSpice Do The Work For You! (Part 2 of 4)
Anyone who designs complex circuits and claims they don’t use the Optimizer in their circuit design is most likely a super-genius with an IQ of 250. Optimizer is a common feature used by many designer
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So, You Want to be a CAD PCB Layout-er
Knowledge workers are of the variety that knows and does something that their manager probably doesn't. Even the schematic capture experts struggle with the layout software. It has always been a...
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